"Caffeine is a tiny program that puts an icon in the right side of your menu bar. Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers. Click it again to go back. Right-click (or ⌘-click) the icon to show the menu."
"Impromptu is an OSX programming environment for composers, sound artists, VJ's and graphic artists with an interest in live or interactive programming. Impromptu is a Scheme language environment, a member of the Lisp family of languages."
Thanks dchud -- real insight into the way OSX applications are configured! I love that the beards-and-suspenders Unix commands (kill, ls, grep) don't show up until Act 2: to each their own command-line!
if a trusty graphics editing app you've used for years suddenly insists that every thing you paste should look like a folder icon, you might need this.
"Whenever you drag an application to the trash, a dialog window will pop up, asking if you want to delete the associated system files too. Simple as that."
"WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first."